FATHER PIERRE DAN ON RENEGADES
This week continues the series of excerpts from Father Pierre Dan, the Trinitarian friar. This week’s post is on renegades—Christians[…]
Read moreThis week continues the series of excerpts from Father Pierre Dan, the Trinitarian friar. This week’s post is on renegades—Christians[…]
Read moreThis week’s post is another in the series from Father Pierre Dan, the French Trinitarian friar who took part in[…]
Read moreFor those Europeans unfortunate enough to be captured by Barbary corsairs and taken to North Africa to be auctioned off[…]
Read moreIn the summer of 1634, Father Dan, a French Trinitarian friar, took part in a diplomatic mission to Algiers. His[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on Algerian Corsairs – Part 1. If you haven’t done so[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on Algerian Corsairs – Part 2. If you haven’t done so[…]
Read moreFather Pierre Dan (born around 1580, died in 1649) was a French Trinitarian friar. The Trinitarians, a Catholic order originally[…]
Read moreThroughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the premier naval vessel in and around the Mediterranean Sea was the[…]
Read moreEarly modern currency was fiendishly complicated by modern standards. Today, there are, of course, multiple currencies—the American/Canadian/Australian/New Zealand dollar, the[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Early Modern Currency – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]
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